Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06
DAKOTA NEWS.

DAKOTA NEWS.
-Elkton is to have n new paper.
ROSWELL is TO have q newspaper.
-Spearfish is to have q $15, 900 hotel. %
-Deusl County farmers complain of too
much rain.
"A newspaper consolidation is on the
tapis ut Huron. -
At present Minnehaha County has nine
prisoners in its Jail.
The Beadle County fair will be held
September 81, % and 90.
Oldham is the suggestive name of q
new town in Kinsbury County.
The newspapers at Aberdeen refuse to
publish advertisements for liquor houses.
The shops of the Northern Pacific
Railroad at Jamestown are to be enlarged.
There is strong talk in Clark County
of arresting parties who start prairie fires.
-Watertown and Lake Kampeska are to
be connected by street cars and a motor
line.
j. S. Sample. of Sturgis, built a church
and presented it to The Presbyterians of
that place.
John Norton, the new mayor at Sioux
Falls, receives a salary of 81 a year for his
services.
Mrs. George Chamberlain, of White
Lake, has had her husband arrested at
Parkdale for bigamy.
,-Nfr Jn11 tho naw pOotmoctar of
Fargo, assumed charge of the Office on the
evening of the 18th inst.
john A. Hill, q lawyer of Grand Forks,
claims acquaintance with William K~issane,
the notorious bank forger.
The different secret orders at Iroquois
are talking up the plan of building a pub
lie bail and q lodge room.
Work on the boring of an artesian we'll
at Bismarck, which was discontinued three
years ago, has been resumed.
The youngsters of the Rec Heights fly
a kite which is 6 by 10 feet in size and
which has a tail 40 feet long.
Lead City has guaranteed S1,025 as Il
salary to be paid to an Episcopal Rector
when one is found to take the parish.
The farmers of the southern counties
report prospects of better crops the coming
season than for many years of the past.
The first annual meeting of the South
ern District Pharmaceutical Association
will be held at Sioux Falls, September 6.
Mayor Norton, of Sioux Falls, received
a letter from the east addressed to ellis
Royal Highness, j. +. Norton, Sioux Falls,
D. T."
Allen McChancy, a CLARK real estate
agent, has left town and is followed by a
warrant charging him with the embezzle-
ment of 5000.
1t is reported that an old Dakotaian,
Theodore Zeigler, on a recent visit to Cali
fornia, was victimized $4,000 on the old
gold brick racket.
Raymond presents a profitable field
for an experienced physician. There is
no physician nearer than Clark or Doland,
twelve miles distant.
In the District Court at Huron, Ben
jamin King. indicted for assault with intent
to kill, was founi guilty of assault with in
tent to commit great bodily injury.
A new banking house, with q capital
of s4n, 900, opened for business at Fargo.
The Security Savings Bank, with q CAPT.
tai stock of $50, 900, will begin business
about May Is.
The editor of the Bloomington Courier
has evidently seen something. He says
that if some of his neighbors don't keep their
window curtains lowered he will be obliged
to board up his front windows.
Miss Sebn Dewell, who has been post
mistress at Norfolk since the establishment
of three years ago, has been removed be-
cause her father is q Republican. Mrs.
Helen M. Briggs is the new postmistress.
Extensive preparations are be ng
made at Sioux Falls for the entertainment
of the Grand Lodge of the Oriental Order
of Humility, which convenes at that place
next month. At least 5000 visitors are
expected. ...
The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, says:
mility are making arrangements to enter
tain the Grand Lodge meeting, which is
to be held there next month. Four nun
dred dollars has already been promised and
it is thought that ST, 900 can be raised. No
less than 5000 visitors would be in line if
the meeting is held here. Every member
of the hut is needed at the Halcyon to-
night.
The Argus-Lcader says: The work
ings of the interstate commerce law are
past all finding out and are to the advant-
age of Sioux Falls, as has been shown.
When shippers in these days ask at head
quarters what freight rates are, the only
answer that they are able to obtain is q
little yellow card on which is printed in
large black letters, mo One Knows but
Jesus" which is carried conveniently in
the vest pocket and shown them. All the
railroad officials from the big guns down to
the little boys, carry these cards.
1t is now stated at Hillsboro that the
true reason why X Governor Pierce was